Welcome to LT Coaching. I am Lis Thowney, a Mother of one, a step-mum to two and a business woman.
In 2012 I had the first dream to become a life coach. But I did not have the confidence and self-belief to make this dream a reality. Move forward 9 years and my reality is more than I ever dreamt of.
When I look back on my past, I cannot believe how far I have come, how much I have changed and how confident I am to stand up and say, yes, I can do this, I am not going to hide in a corner anymore.
During my childhood I had numerous experiences of bullying, isolation and confidence knocking. I also had some amazing experiences that got hidden, pushed to the back, along with my confidence as the “bad” experiences outweighed the “good”.
I went on to spend 12 years with the London Ambulance Service as a Paramedic, seeing the best and worst that life has to offer. The highs and lows of life. I have comforted an elderly lady who has just lost her husband of 60 years, celebrated with new parents at the safe arrival of their baby. Taken away pain, mental and physical. Given hope to others. I moved on from there to spend 11 years within the 111 service and 999 control room environments in various roles. I have managed staff and been managed. I have helped and supported those staff with their lives and difficulties.
A few years ago, I started to see how negative I was with life, all I saw was the weeds, I couldn’t see any flowers. I knew that things needed to change as I couldn’t continue like this. So, it was time to take action. Fast forward to now. I am a changed person. I have a completely different outlook with life. I am taking opportunities I never would have. I have gone out and qualified as an ICF life coach, a self-love life coach and undertaken a 6 month coaching programme with The Clique coaching academy. I have trained as a TRiM practitioner and in PTSD, I am currently undertaking a She Leads female coaching course.
In 2020 I was blessed with the most amazing Son a Mother could ask for. After a long and emotional IVF journey, unfortunately the end of pregnancy and delivery was not a smooth experience. Once I had settled my mind over what had happened, I realised that the life I had was not what I wanted anymore. This little bundle had changed me irrevocably. I no longer felt aligned to what I had spent the majority of my life doing so far. My purpose had completely changed. I knew this meant I needed to have a complete flip of all I knew career wise. Making this happen I then felt so aligned with my path, my destiny and my purpose.
This has given me a passion and a drive to help other Mothers who have realised now that their whole purpose, drive, goals, wants and even career choice in life have changed and do not know how to move this forwards to fulfill that yearning in themselves.
